With splendor the celebration of the Holy Monastery of Panormitou Symitranslated

With particular brilliance, deep rapture and a great participation of a crowd of devout pilgrims, the local Church of Symi honored this year the All-Mighty Taxiarch Michael the Panormite, the heavenly protector and guardian of the island, in His historic Holy Monastery. On the afternoon of Saturday, November 7, 2026, the Great Hierarch's Vespers was celebrated in the celebratory Holy Monastery, presided over and spoken by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Symi, Mr. Chrysostomos, supported by the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panormitou, the Most High Assistant to the Bishop of Rodostolo, Mr. Antonios, the Panociol. Professor of the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropigian Monastery of Ibera of Mount Athos Archim. father Nathanael, the Panosiols. Archimandrites, Fr. Chrysostomos from Mount Athos, Fr. Euthymios Vakalakis, from the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki, Fr. Ioannikios Anagnostou from the Holy Metropolis of Rhodes, Simaios Fr. Iosif Adamopoulos, from the Holy Metropolis of Nicaea, Dr. Fr. Georgios Stathopoulos, cleric of the Holy Metropolis of Ilia, Fr. Protopresbyter Fr.

Dimitrios Katzigas, from the Holy Metropolis of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, Fr. Emmanuel Lykopantis from Symi, clergyman of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, the...